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Detail from a set of bed hangings. Although a paper impression of this design is inscribed P.33 Talwin & Foster 8d, the pattern was not necessarily produced only when the Bromley Hall factory was operated by the Talwin and Foster families (c. 1783-90), as other impressions of the same design have no inscriptions, and many copperplates were used for twenty years or more. The three blue threads in the selvedge of this piece indicate a date between 1774 and 1811. Dilys E. Blum, from The Fine Art of Textiles: The Collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art (1997), p. 33.